Dear Guix,
I am trying (and failing) to setup a new computer with Guix. I managed to get through the installation process with a configuration that boots into GNOME. However, the keyboard is messed up (I made a typo) and I don't yet have the desktop environment up and running I actually feel productive using. GNOME places too many extraneous demands on my attention. There is a lot going on and I find all the beeping unsettling. So I am typing this email on my old computer with Guix. One of the selling points in Guix marketing for me is that the system configuration should be self contained within /etc/config.scm and channels.scm. However, this appears to not be the case. There seems a third element hidden away which prevents me from running: ``` guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm ``` This command errors out: ``` failed to load '/etc/config.scm' ... no code for module ... ``` At the moment since I am still very early in setting up my new computer, I have to type everything so I'm not going to go into more detail than that. Suffice to say it doesn't see the modules I need from the extra channel. It did see them during the installation otherwise my computer would be in a far less usable state than it is. When I run the following command: ``` guix system describe ``` The addition channel gets listed. How can it be listed yet be unknown to the `guix system reconfigure` command? During the installation of my new computer I used guix pull -C /etc/channels.scm. I was struggling with the official documentation, so this was kind of an improvisation. Could doing this nonstandard action have lead to this nonstandard state? Can it be fixed? I tried running the commands with the root user and with prefixing sudo. Neither variat produces the desired result: a new configuration with the correct keymap and my next steps towards setting up my desktop environment. Thanks in advance for your help! Cheers, Kyle
